Verkkothere is a widespread intuition that readers’ empathy with fictional characters can help to understand certain works of literature. In a nutshell, the. Verkkoour discussion will incorporate the view that readers actively participate in the construction of literary worlds, and, thus, literary characters. Verkkowhether readers do or do not experience characters through belief structures, and how their emotional attachment to those characters is. Verkkovermeule examines the ways in which readers’ experiences of literature are affected by the emotional attachments they form to fictional characters and how those.
